The Rock

1. Commissioned by Edgar Kaufmann, from 1948 to 1955; by descent to Edgar Kaufmann Jr., from 1955 to 1956; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Durlacher Brothers Gallery, <em>Peter Blume</em>, Jan. 3–29, 1949, cat. 11.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Paintings</em>, Oct. 19–Dec. 21, 1950, cat. 41.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students Leagure of New York</em>, 1951, cat. 75, ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, <em>Paintings and Drawings: Peter Blume in Retrospective, 1926 to 1964</em>, cat. 19; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, July 9–Aug. 16, 1964.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, <em>Peter Blume exhibition</em>, Jan. 10–Feb. 29, 1976.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis</em>, Nov. 14, 2014–Apr. 5, 2015; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, July 3–Sept. 20, 2015 (Philadelphia only) cat. 90.

• Howard Devree, "Diverse Americans: The Development of Glackens' Painting––Blume's New Work––Thon and Others," <em>New York Times</em>, Jan. 9, 1949, 8 (ill.).
• “Peter Blume Presents His Magnum Opus,” <em>Art Digest</em> 23 (Jauary, 1949), 13 (ill.).
• “Blume: Obsessed Realist,” <em>Art News</em> 47 (Jan. 1949), 22–23 (ill.).
• <em>Magazine of Art</em> 42 (March, 1949), 85 (ill.).
• "Surrealism Wins in the People's Vote," <em>Art Digest</em> 25, 7 ( January, 1951), 8 (ill.).
• "The Peoples Choice," <em>Carnegie Magazine</em> 25 (January, 1951), 13–15, cover (ill.).
• <em>The Seventy–Fifth Anniversary Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York</em> (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1951), 75.
• <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: a Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 26.
• James A. Schinneller, <em>Art/Search & Self–Discovery</em>, 3rd ed., (Davis Publications, 1975), 36.
• <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 89 (ill.).
• Franklin Toker, <em>Fallingwater Rising</em> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 317 (ill.).
• “Seeing Beyond the Must–Sees,” <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, Apr.18, 2003, 7.

Buoy

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Sketches of a Nude Woman

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Excavation

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Excavation

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for The Rock

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Excavation

Art Institute of Chicago

Studies for The Rock

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for The Rock

Art Institute of Chicago

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